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PHOTO: Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau and Vili Fualaau are seen here with their two teenage daughters, Audrey and Georgia.

Mary is working as a legal assistant but hopes she can return to teaching. Her teaching license was revoked during the scandal, but she has now started tutoring and giving piano lessons. She is still registered as a sex offender, but is trying to get her name removed from the registry.

Their two teenage girls, who are in the same school district where Mary used to teach, said their parents have told them how they met, and they knew their mother was different from others when their interaction was limited to prison visits. But the girls seem unfazed by the controversial circumstances of how their family was formed.

“There was never a sit-down chat: ‘Now is the time we're going to talk to our children about this,” Mary said. “They seemed to already know ... because they grew up with it. ... There's just never been a, ‘Wow, we better explain.’”

Audrey graduates from high school this coming June, and will attend community college in the fall. Georgia is a sophomore and a cheerleader. Both sing in their high school choir. Their parents are very protective, and Vili said he has warned his daughters against having boyfriends.

“The reason for me telling them that was just from, out of experience,” he said. “A relationship could lead to something that you think you wanted back then. You don't really want it, maybe, years later.”

If either of their girls did what they did, if they came home one day and said they were sleeping with their teacher, both Mary and Vili said they would be shocked and upset.

“I don't support younger kids being married or having a relationship with someone older,” Vili said. “I don't support it.”

"It was a huge relief to actually get married... [after] just going through all those years and then having so many questions and them not being answered," he said.

Mary and Vili have stayed in the same Seattle community where Mary had lived with her first husband. When she and Vili got married, Mary said they didn’t move because they wanted to focus on "getting on track with life.” Through all of this, Mary said her four children from her previous marriage have remained part of their family.

“All of our holidays were always together,” she said. “And they're very close with their sisters.”
But for Vili, who is only about a year and a half older than Mary’s oldest son, it has been more difficult.

“It's an awkward feeling, for sure, to be close in age with someone technically your stepson or stepdaughter,” he said.

Today, Vili works at a home and garden center, but his passion is working his night job as a DJ. His DJ name is “DJ Headline.”

"I do a lot of weddings, private parties," he said. "Eventually, I want to get into producing."

“I’m surprised I’m still alive today,” Vili said. “I went through a really dark time.”

Vili grew up impoverished without a father and had a tumultuous relationship with his mother. When his affair with Mary began, and after she became pregnant with his child, Vili said he felt that he had no support system to help him through it.

“It was a huge change in my life, for sure,” he said. “I don’t feel like I had the right support, the right help behind me ... from my family, from anyone, in general. I mean, my friends couldn't help me because they had no idea what it was like to be a parent, I mean, because we were all 14, 15.”

Vili said he had counseling sessions, but even then he struggled because he said counselors wanted him to take antidepressant medication to "even him out."

“I don’t even think the counselors knew how to deal with it. It was just weird,” he said. “I was like, ‘Why do I need to be on an antidepressant pill?’ And they said it was to level you out so they can have a conversation with you. ... It just kind of just really annoyed me through the years.”

Vili was forbidden from visiting Mary in prison, but he said it would have helped him if he had been able to talk to her during that time.

“I think the only person that I really ... needed to talk to-- I mean, if they gave me more options or choices to make instead of just saying, ‘Oh, you can’t talk to her anymore,’ and I was like, ‘I really do want to talk to her, though,’” Vili said.

Mary was released from prison in August 2004, and the couple was married 10 months later in a lavish ceremony at a winery in Washington state. Vili was 21 years old.

Mary was paroled after serving six months on the condition that she stay away from Vili and attend counseling sessions for sex offenders. But within a month of being paroled, she was back in prison for ignoring the court order and her sentence was reinstated. While on parole, Mary became pregnant again with Vili's child and gave birth to a second daughter, Georgia, behind bars on October 16, 1998. Mary's husband then filed for divorce and moved their four children to Alaska.

For Vili, the journey to get where he is today has not been easy. He said he battled depression over the years.

"The incident was a late night that it didn't stop with a kiss," Mary said. "And I thought that it would and it didn't."

When asked if she felt guilty or disgusted with herself for having the affair, Mary said, "I loved him very much, and I kind of thought, 'why can't it ever just be a kiss?'"

By the end of summer 1996, Mary was pregnant with Vili's child, their first daughter. Shortly after the new year in 1997, Mary's husband discovered a love letter Mary had written. The authorities were alerted, and Mary was arrested.

The story of the Seattle teacher-student sex scandal caught wide national attention. She gave birth to her and Vili’s first child, Audrey, on May 29, 1997. Three months later, Mary pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree child rape. On Friday, Nov. 14, 1997, she was sentenced to 89 months in prison.



PHOTO: Former grade school teacher Mary Kay LeTourneau, who had an affair with a 13-year-old boy, and had his baby, has her handcuffs removed at the start of a hearing in Seattle, Feb. 6, 1998.

PHOTO: In an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters, Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau and Vili Fualaau sit down together on the eve of their 10th wedding anniversary.


This interview is a part of Barbara Walters' upcoming new series, "American Scandal," on Investigation Discovery, which revisits some of her most famous interviews.

During the interview, Mary described how her and Vili's relationship moved from emotional to sexual when he was in middle school. When she was his teacher, she began to spend more and more time with Vili to help him develop what she thought was a gift for drawing. By the end of the school year, she said the two had bonded. By summer, they started having an affair.

Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau, Vili Fualaau Detail Their Path From Teacher-Student Sex Scandal to Raising Teenagers
By JENNIFER JOSEPH, BROOKE STANGELAND, LAUREN PUTRINO and LAUREN EFFRON
6 hours ago
Good Morning America





When Mary Kay Letourneau Fualaau was forced to go public in 1997 with an affair she was having with her former sixth grade student, Vili Fualaau, after she became pregnant with his child, it was the teacher-student sex scandal heard around the world.

At the time, Mary was a 34-year-old, married teacher in Seattle, who already had four children of her own. Vili was just 13 years old. Mary was arrested and served seven and a half years in prison.

Today, Mary is 53 and Vili is 31. The couple is still together and are about to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. The two daughters they have together are now teenagers -- older than Vili was when the affair started.

Mary and Vili sat down for an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters to talk about how they managed to stay together all these years, despite their very public and forbidden relationship.

“If it wasn't strong enough in the beginning, it wouldn't have carried through those years,” Mary told Walters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5rtb4REdBg

Aw, di jud tuod lalim...

Klarong nalisoan, ay...

Quote from: islander on April 10, 2015, 04:53:25 PM
pets don't get drunk

Don't be too sure...

The Zeigarnik Effect is the tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete (Baumeister & Bushman, 2008, pg. 122). The automatic system signals the conscious mind, which may be focused on new goals, that a previous activity was left incomplete. It seems to be human nature to finish what we start and, if it is not finished, we experience dissonance.

A study done by Greist-Bousquet and Schiffman (1992) provided evidence for the Zeigarnik Effect. In this paper, the authors stated that there is a tendency or “need” to complete a task once it has been initiated and the lack of closure that stems from an unfinished task promotes some continued task related cognitive effort. The cognitive effort that comes with these intrusive thoughts of the unfinished task is terminated only once the person returns to complete the task.

In their study, two groups were observed. The first group was administered a list of 10 three letter anagrams they were asked to solve. The second group was given a list of 20 three letter anagrams they were asked to solve. The first group was asked to estimate the amount of time it took them to finish solving the list after they completed it. Their estimated time was then divided by the actual time it took them to finish. The average ratio for this group was 1.109 which means they were very close to correct (Greist-Bousquet & Schiffman, 1992).

The second group was abruptly interrupted after the first 10 three letter anagrams. They were asked to estimate how much time it took them to finish the first set of 10 (they were fully aware they still had 10 more anagrams to complete). They then proceeded to finish the last 10 anagrams. They were asked again to estimate the time it took to finish the second set of 10 anagrams. For the first set of 10 anagrams, the average ratio was 1.646, which meant they overestimated how much time it took them to finish. The average ratio was 1.346 for the second set of 10 anagrams (Greist-Bousquet & Schiffman, 1992), which was fairly accurate.

The second group overestimated the time it took them to complete the task because they were disrupted. This caused them to feel frustrated and experience a form of failure. This distress and thoughts of returning to the objective may have caused them to think they were slower at finishing the first 10 anagrams.


More at: http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/Zeigarnik_Effect

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 10, 2015, 03:58:01 PM
Gipadayag niya nga posibling naguol si Cularte human nagkabuwag sa iyang asawa kay wa nay ganang mokaon ug magsige og kapasmo hinungdan nga nalisoan sa pangisip.

Hala! Kon wa tay ganang mokaon unya magsigig kapasmo, posible diay nga malisoan ta? Bantog rang medyo maglain ang akong bation usahay...

Nangaudaw ang duha ka mga ba­lay nga ginama lang sa light materials.

Sumala niya nga tungod sa kainit sa panahon ug kagaay sa mga dapat sa balay, way napunit ang pamilya.

Nidanyos kini og P11,000 ug ugdaw na dihang niabot ang kapulisan.

“Isog naman kaayo ni siya, Sir, mao nga way nahimo ang mga silingan kay pamunalan man niya sa kahoy. Hinuon nadakpan siya sa mga barangay tanod. Pag-abot namo gi­pusasan na,” dugang ni Sugarol.

Gipadayag niya nga posibling naguol si Cularte human nagkabuwag sa iyang asawa kay wa nay ganang mokaon ug magsige og kapasmo hinungdan nga nalisoan sa pangisip.

Ang mga kabanay niya nipadayag nga giatiman unta nilag pagpakaon apan mobalibad, magsige na lang sa pagyawyaw ingon man maglakawlakaw sa ilang lugar.

Wa nila isalikway ang posibilidad nga nakatampo sa sakit niining nervous breakdown ang problima sa pamilya ug kamingaw sa asawa.

Ilang gipaabot ang kabanay sa pagduso sa kasong arson batok niini. -- http://www.sunstar.com.ph/superbalita-cebu/balita/2015/04/09/

SUPERBALITA-CEBU
GUAM P. LOGROÃ'O


MAG-UUMA nga nalisoan sa pangisip tungod sa kamingaw sa iyang asawa nga nibiya kaniya nisunog sa ilang balay human mag-wild niadtong Miyerkules sa ala 1:30 sa hapon sa Sitio Esyong, Barangay Sonog, lungsod sa San Francisco, isla sa Camotes.

Si Leonito Cularte, 46, mag-uuma, gibalhog sa presento sa kapulisan samtang gihikay pa ang kasong arson nga ipasaka batok kaniya.

Si PO3 Rex Sugarol, imbestigador sa San Francisco Police Station nga nahinabi sa Sun.Star Superbalita, nagkanayon nga si Cularte mga usa ka buwan na nga nag-nervous breakdown tungod sa problimang gihambin.

Niadtong Miyerkules naukay ang mga silingan ug kabanay dihang nagdala kinig kahoy, nag-wild, gustong bunalan ang mga tawo nga ningduol kaniya.

Si Cularte nikuhag lighter ug nilahos sa pansayan sa ilang balay nga gibungbongan sa amakang ka­wayan dayon giduslitan hinungdan sa pagsilaob sa kayo.

Way nahimo ang mga silingan kay isog kaayo ang suspek, kayo mikaon sa iyang balay ug sa iyang anak nga si Rose.

Quote from: islander on April 07, 2015, 06:31:55 PM
"The newly created borders did not correspond to the actual sectarian, tribal, or ethnic distinctions on the ground."

Of course. National self-interest has never really bothered about correspondences or distinctions among the subdued populations.

Quote from: islander on April 09, 2015, 10:49:28 PM
aw, kinsa goy di masuya ug basura.  ikaw bay basurera, lalim ba.

Depended sa basura, oi. Ug usab sa basura person. Sa basurero pa ko, diha koy colleague whose motto was: "Kada adlaw, piskay kong modumdom sa akong trabaho. Pilay palad, sa akong pagpanguykoy og basura, basin makakaplag kog dyamante."

Hala bira!

Quote from: islander on April 09, 2015, 10:45:41 PM
could it happen too that he provides a parachute?

Hmm, a parachute would be too human-like. Breaking his fall or teaching him how to fly in one or two easy steps (or flaps, maybe?) would constitute a more persuasive evidence of godhood.

Malagmit nga nagdumili siyang mopauli kay nahadlok siyang kulatahon. Nah, sobra pa sa kulata intawon ang iyang nahiaguman...

Serial Killers In Numbers


The USA has 76% of the worlds serial killers.

Europe in second, has 17%. England has produced 28% of the European total; Germany produces 27%, and France produces 13%.

California leads in the US with the most Serial Homicide cases that have occured. Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida follow shortly behind.

Maine has the lowest occurence of serial murders â€" none. Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, Delaware, and Vermont each have had only one case of a serial murder.

84% of American killers are caucasian.

16% are black.

Men make up at least 90% of the world wide total of serial killers.

65% of victims are female.

89% of victims are white.

44% of all killers start in their twenties.

26% start in their teens.

24% start in their thirties.

Out of all the killers, 86% are heterosexual.


http://twistedminds.creativescapism.com/

Quote from: islander on April 08, 2015, 10:25:32 PM
hampasabol.  plastic kana ng giugbok.  wa goy dahon.

Suya lang ka...

Grabeha. Aw, wa ka nay selosan pa, Mr. Dunggaber...

SUPERBALITA-DAVAO
JEEPY P. COMPIO


USA ka asawa ang gipatay sa iyang mister kinsa nagselos tungod sa pagtuong dunay laing lalaki ang iyang misis.

Ang insidente nahitabo alas 12:30 sa kaadlawon, Miyerkules, didto sa Barangay Colosas, Paquibato District.

Ang biktima mao si Neneth Ebora, 39, kinsa giayo og dunggab hangtud nga namatay sa iyang bana nga si Jose Ebora, 39, mag-uuma sa dapit.

Subay sa impormasyon nga nakalap sa Sun.Star Davao Superbalita, nasayran nga pista sa dapit niadtong Martes, dihang miuli ang asawang si Neneth sa ilang balay gikan nagtrabaho sa sentro sa siyudad.

Giingon nga dungan sa ilang kapistahan, pamalaye sab sa kamaguwangan nga anak sa biktima ug nakatakdang ihawan unta og baboy.

Sumala ni Rommy Ebora, igsuong lalaki ni Jose, nga alas 11:00 sa gabii niadtong Martes, nanumbalay si Neneth sa ilang silingan, apan giapas siya ni Jose bandang alas 12:00 sa tungang gabii kay nakasagap siya og istorya nga duna kini giingong kabit samtang nagtrabaho.

Nagdumili pa sa pag-uli ang biktima, apan giguyod kini sa bana ug nag-away taliwala sa kalsada.
Wa nasayran nga nagdala diay og kutsilyo ang bana nga giduslak sa dughan ug tiyan sa makadaghang higayon sa iyang asawa nga miresulta sa kamatayon.

Human napatay iyang asawa, nag-unay sab siya pagdunggab sa iyang tiyan mao nga gidala siya sa Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) alas 5:00 sa buntag kagahapon.

Ang suspek anaa sa talandugong kahimtang sa kasamtangan.

Ang patay nga lawas sa biktima gihaya na sa ilang panimalay sa nasampit nga dapit samtang ang suspek gibantayan sa mga pulis sa SPMC.

O kaha sama ani...

Wa man isulti unsay porma sa alambre. Sama ba kaha ani...

Unsa kahay update aning balitaa nga hapit na man diay ni moduha ka tuig. Malamposon ba kaha ang health workers pagbunlot sa alambre.

By Brigada Editors | June 17, 2013 | GenSan Edition


PADAYON nga gina-obserbahan sa mga mananambal ang usa ka babaye nga inmate sa South Cotabato Provincial Jail and Rehabilitation Center sa Koronadal City tungod matud pa sa dili ordinaryong balatian niini.

Sa nakuhang impormasyon sa 95.7 Brigada News FM Koronadal, ang inmate naila nga si Blessy Pangcol, 59-anyos, taga Cebu City nga nagatubang ug kasong estafa. Gipahayag sa igsoon niini nga posibleng “gidaut” kini mao nga dili angayan dad-on sa ospital.

Miapela matud pa kini sa mga jail guard nga dili kini pagadad-on sa ospital tungod posible nga mabugtoan kini sa kabuhi.

Nasayran nga daghang kinarwasan ang tiyan ni Pangcol ug adunay alambre matud pa nga nagagawas sa sampot niini.

Gisulayan sigon pa nga bunloton kini sa pila ka health worker sa naasoy nga jail apan naglisod sila kay nag-ungot kini sa iyang tiyan samtang mibati si Pangcol ug tukmang kasakit.

Tungod niini mipirma na lamang ug waiver ang maong inmate kung asa mideklara kini nga dili siya magpadala sa ospital.

Si Pangcol napreso human gipasakaan ug kasong estafa human nangilad ug nagtakuban nga Santo Niño dihang nangangayo ug kwarta sa usa ka pamilya nga iyang gipatuo nga may diamond sa ilahang balay. (Girlie Narciso-Solis)

Quote from: islander on April 08, 2015, 10:23:08 PM
ug ang mga langyaw nga customers hayahay nga mopauli sa ilang mga asawa.  the end.

Hmm, kay nakapahungaw na sa ilang pagkabayot?

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 08, 2015, 07:26:41 PM
Some of his brides were as young as 14, and he even married women who already had living husbands. Sometimes, he would send the husbands on missions in foreign countries and marry their wives while they were away and unable to object.

Payter! Out-Daviding David...

Wow! Can't wait. Acupressure massage slippers after my own heart and sole...

Quote from: -<GEC348>- on April 09, 2015, 12:43:38 AM
February was cool
But April is hot
So let's drink some coffee
And dunk in some nuts

Yes, April may be hot
But TB now is not.
So come in every day
And not just until May.

Mr. GEC, ang tawo nga molili
Malagmit matuwad ug mabali,
Mao nga dayon og pahayahay
Diri sa payag tang hamugaway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_h7EhvD4E

Fotografía Maia Flore


Saliste de la noche
Y había flores en tus manos,
Ahora saldrás de una muchedumbre,
De una confusión de habladurías sobre ti.

Yo que he sabido verte entre las cosas esenciales
Me enojé cuando pronunciaron tu nombre
En lugares comunes.
Quisiera que las frías olas fluyeran sobre mi mente,
Y que el mundo se secara como una hoja muerta,
O como una semilla de diente de león que fuera arrasada,
Así tal vez pueda hallarte de nuevo,
Sola.


http://nueces-y-manies.blogspot.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcS4OsdngOg

Photo credit: Widtsoe Collection, Utah State Historical Society


Polygamy has long been a blight on Mormonism’s public relations. The founder of the religion, Joseph Smith, began claiming he had been commanded by God to take additional wives after his first wife caught him having sex with their teenage maid in the barn. Despite the fact that the Book of Mormon (which Smith said he translated by the power of God) denounces polygamy, Smith didn’t stop with two wives and, before he died, he had married close to 40 women and possibly many more.

Some of his brides were as young as 14, and he even married women who already had living husbands. Sometimes, he would send the husbands on missions in foreign countries and marry their wives while they were away and unable to object. However, the revelation that Smith said he received commanding polygamy specifically forbade women marrying more than one man. -- http://listverse.com/2015/

Bwahaha!

Quote from: Lollapalooza on April 08, 2015, 01:17:48 PM
despite with all these pile of rubbish emerge a beauty nyaahahaha tira pasagad na lang ta ani

OK pood. Sama ani...

Subay niini, si Maca­tangay niawhag niadtong mga tag-iya og resort ug publiko, ilabi na karon nga summer, nga moabag sa kapulisan pinaagi sa pag-report dayon kon duna silay mabantayang illegal nga mga kalihukan.

Sumala pa niya nga pinaagi sa pag-abag sa katawhan ug sa ubang mga sector, malimpiyuhan ang Sugbo gikan sa human trafficking.

Si Plando nga nahinabi sa tigbalita nanghimakak nga mga bugaw silang duha ni Marian kay matod niya mga biktima lang usab sila.

Gibutyag niya nga ang bugaw mao ang duha ka mga lalake nga maoy nag-agni kanila ug gitapok sila, gipasaligan nga hatagag kwarta bugti sa paghatag og kalipay sa ilang ikakita nga langyaw.

Tungod sa offer ug kawad-on, sila nisugot nga mouban unta sa ilang langyaw nga customer.

Gipasabot niya nga nakahibawo siya nga sala ang ilang gibuhat kay makig-uban sa ilang kustomer nga langyaw bugti sa kalipay, apan wa mahitabo nga sila nangbugaw.

Samtang si Marian nipadayag nga nikuyog lang siya sa iyang mga silingang menor nga bayut nga permaninting magsuroyan sa Mango nga dunay maka-ilang mga langyaw.

Ang kapulisan mosang-at og kasong human trafficking batok sa mga suspek samtang gihikay pa ang mga dukomento sa mga biktima. -- http://www.sunstar.com.ph/2015/04/07/

Si Marian, 15, gitumbok nga bugaw ingon man ang iyang silingang si Alfie Plando, 22, alyas Kisha, igo na lang sa paghilak dungan sa tumang pagmahay.

Si Sr. Insp. Ma. Theresa Macatangay, chief sa Regional Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force (RATFF-7) nga nahinabi sa mga tigbalita, nagkanayon nga duha ka semana nilang gi-monitor sila si Maria ug Kisha human sila makadawat sa mga impormasyon sa ilang illegal nga kalihukan.

Ang ilang ilegal nga kalihukan on call nga mohatag sa serbisyo sa mga langyaw bugti sa dagkong bayad.

Ang mga menor dad-on sa laing lugar, labina sa mga resort diin mohatag sila og sexual nga serbisyo sa mga langyaw.

Matod ni Macatangay nga atol sa entrapment operation, ninggamit silag booddle money nga P14,000.

Ang matag bayut bayran nilag P3,000, apan ang kuwang adto na ipuno sa lugar diin sila dad-on kunohay.

Ang mga biktima uban nila ni Marian ug Plando nagtapok sulod sa usa ka kan-anan sa General Ma­xilom avenue.

Dihang nidawat sa kwarta ang duha ka mga bugaw, sila gipangpusasan hinungdan nga na-rescue ang walo ka mga biktima.

Si Macatangay nii­ngon nga notado ang duha ka mga bugaw nga anha pirme mag-estambay sa Mango alang sa ilang pagpanguhag kustomer gamit ang menor nga mga bayut nga magbinabaye sa pagsul-ob sa sinena.

ni Guam P. Logroño



Entrapment. Mga reporter ug cameraman nanagtapok gawas sa usa ka mall sa General Maxilom ave., dakbayan sa Sugbo human sa entrapment operation. Mga biktima naa na sa sud sa usa ka van nga gamit sa kapulisan. (Arni Aclao)


WALO ka mga bayut, unom kanila mga menor de edad, na-rescue sa kapulisan samtang duha ka bayut nga bugaw nasikop sa entrapment ope­ration kagahapon sa alas 11:00 sa buntag sa may General Maxilom avenue, dakbayan sa Sugbo.

Usa sa duha ka mga bugaw menor de edad.

Sa unom ka mga biktima nga menor de edad, 14 anyos ang labing bata samtang ang duha legal age na.

Mga biktima pulos taga Barangay Labangon ning dakbayan.

Malagmit magkadagma-dagma ang resident chickboy nato anang kalakiha...

...and insurance sure helps.

Patuga og takmag...

Here I come...

Hmm, are you even a poor excuse for a butterfly to bovinely ruminate on things hominine? Forsooth, methinks thou art not even chrysalid enough.

Proud indeed. It's not easy to have it grow that big...

Quote from: islander on April 07, 2015, 06:55:44 PM
it depends on where i am.

Hmm, I suppose it further depends on whether your cat is approaching you or leaving you.

Quote from: islander on April 07, 2015, 05:37:19 PM
selfie?  (no. 4 emoticon here; grin)

Nope. Mao ni ang selfie...

He he, OK kaayo ang choice sa taklob ug luwag...

Philippine Star â€" 14 hours ago


Amid relentless criticism of his handling of the Mamasapano incident, President Aquino’s satisfaction rating plunged to its lowest ever â€" a net of 11 percent in the first quarter.
In the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, 47 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with his performance, 36 percent were dissatisfied and 17 percent undecided. This meant a net satisfaction score of “moderate” 11 from the “good” 39 in the December 2014 survey.

At Malacañang, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said the administration can still win over the “undecided” by vigorously implementing priority programs.

Based on the SWS survey published yesterday in the newspaper BusinessWorld, Aquino’s satisfaction ratings dropped across all geographical areas and socioeconomic classes.
In the December 2014 SWS survey, 63 percent expressed satisfaction with Aquino’s work, 24 percent were dissatisfied and 14 percent undecided.


More at: https://ph.news.yahoo.com/satisfaction-noy-plunges-time-low-160000273.html

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 07, 2015, 02:06:45 PM
Giingon nga sa kalagot ni Mercy, nagdala siya og taklob sa kaldero ug luwag dayon gibagting-bagting sa hawanan sa tunga sa videoke house.

Dihang mikalma ang tanan, iyang gipagawas iyang mister ug gihampak sa iyang dalang taklob sa kaldero ug luwag.

Bwahaha! Tagam...

SUPERBALITA-DAVAO
JEEPY P. COMPIO


NAKURAT ang mga kustomer sa usa ka balay kalingawan sa Poblacion sa Toril human misulong ang usa ka asawa kay iyang nasakpang misabak-sabak sa guest relation officer (GRO) ang iyang mister alas 11:00 sa gabii niadtong Dominggo.

Si alyas Nerissa, 42, nagpuyo sa San Guillermo, Barangay 22-C Poblacion, nagsaysay sa Sun.Star Superbalita sa nahitabo tali sa iyang kumare nga si alyas Mercy, 44, taga Barangay Daliao, Toril District, kay nasakpan niini iyang mister nga maayo kaayong nagsabak sa GRO.

Nasayran nga napungot na si Mercy dihang wala kauli ang iyang mister, apan bandang alas 10:00 sa gabii, gi-text-san siya sa iyang higala kung asa nagtagay iyang mister.

Giingon nga sa kalagot ni Mercy, nagdala siya og taklob sa kaldero ug luwag dayon gibagting-bagting sa hawanan sa tunga sa videoke house.

Dihang mikalma ang tanan, iyang gipagawas iyang mister ug gihampak sa iyang dalang taklob sa kaldero ug luwag.

"Basta, enjoy kaayo ang dapit kay mora'g naay taping sa kataw-anan nga pelikula," saysay ni Nerissa sa Superbalita.

Daling miuli ang mister tungod sa hitabo, samtang wala na sab nagpatala sa buhatan sa Toril Police Station ang tagdumala sa balay kalingawan, gumikan nananghid nang daan si Mercy kanila sa iyang buhaton. -- http://www.sunstar.com.ph/superbalita-davao/balita/2015/04/06/

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Trash and abandoned supplies left behind by climbers on Mount Everest. (Photo: Barry C. Bishop/National Geographic/Getty Images)


Every year, more than 300 climbers attempt the daring and dangerous feat of scaling Mount Everest. These mountaineers are usually joined by just as many sherpas who are responsible for guiding the expeditions up the peaks.

Over the years, these groups of explorers have left behind huge amounts of trash on the mountain â€" everything from tents, equipment and clothing to plastic bottles, tins and food packets. There is also an insane amount of human feces that have accumulated in the base camps and camping sites on the climbing routes. Because of the amount of buildup, Mount Everest is now being referred to as the World’s Highest Junkyard.

The situation has become such that the levels of toxic waste are now threatening the ecosystem and could potentially spread disease down through mountain streams to local communities living at the foot of the range. Nepal has now introduced very strict penalties on groups littering the natural wonder and religious site, introducing a rule that requires a $4,000 deposit which is forfeited should a climber fail to bring back an 8-kilogram bag of trash and human waste to the base camp.

The Indian Army is also planning several clean up operations this climbing season, which runs from March to May.


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The dogs even formed a procession line behind the hearse on the day of the funeral.

Workers at the funeral parlor had never seen the animals before and realized that they were showing up to say goodbye to Margarita.

Margarita Suarez was an animal lover who was well known for feeding stray dogs in her neighborhood. She passed away earlier this month and to her family’s surprise stray dogs began showing up to the funeral parlor where Margarita’s body was being kept.

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[sise=14pt]Kaso sa pagpatay ni Archival ipa-archive?[/size]
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ASTRA ZINA D. LOGARTA


POSIBLING ipa-archive na kon ipahipos diha sa mga record sa korte ang kasong pagpatay kang Atty. Noel Archival ug mga kaubanan.

Kini human nga wa na maatiman ang maong kaso, human usab niinhibit ang RTC Argao sa paghusay niini.

Si Atty. Inocencio dela Cerna, abogado sa kanhi ug pulis ug akusado nga si Joselito Lerion, miingon nga ang pag-archive sa usa ka kaso nagpasabot nga taguan na kini aron dili na usab mamahimong pending o dili na mag-ung-ong diha sa hukmanan.

Gawas nga wa pa’y huwes nga mohupot sa kaso, wa pa usab madakpi ang mga akusado sa kaso nga silang Lerion, Romualdo Iglesia ug Alex Bacani.

Mga kasong mulitple ug frustrated murder ang ilang gi-atubang subay sa kamatayon ni Atty. Archival ug duha ka mga kauban ug pagkaangol sa laing usa niadtong Pebrero sa miaging tuig.

Matod ni dela Cerna, ang mga kaso nga wa na maglihok, angayan nang i-archive kun ilubong.

“So that it will not remain as pending. In other words, bury it,” niingon si dela Cerna.

Ang prosekusyon sa ilang bahin, nag­tinguha pagsupak sa lakang sa depensa.

Gihulagway sa abogado sa pamilyang Archival nga si Democrito Barcenas nga “ridiculous” kun binoang ang tinguha pagpa-archive sa Archival murder case.

Dugang ni Barcenas nga ang labing maayong solusyon alang sa pagpasibog sa kaso mao ang hingpit na gyud nga pagsikop sa mga gikatahapan.

Sa nasayran, gitaktak na sa serbisyo ang tulo ka mga akusadong kanhi sakop sa Highway Patrol Group 7 human sila nipalta pagtungha sa trabaho, mugna sa ilang pagkalambigit sa kaso.

Ang prosekusyon nangayo na og alias warrant of arrest sa korte aron mas mapalig-on ang nagpadayong manhunt operation batok sa tulo.

                                   

"Manila, by pushing forward with the arbitral proceeding despite strong objection from Beijing, has been acting like a crying baby," China's official New China News Agency said in a December commentary.

Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam claim full or partial sovereignty over the South China Sea, and Japan is sparring with China over claims to the East China Sea. Manila's U.N. action "contributes to the maintenance and enhancement of the international order in the region based on the rule of law," Japan's foreign ministry said in a supportive statement last year.

Japan had agreed to work out a military base agreement with the Philippines in 2013 after Defense Minister Voltaire Gazmin called China a "bully at our doorstep." Last year, Manila handed Tokyo a wish list of military equipment after Japan said it would revise policies that have long prohibited weapons exports.

"I think it is probably accurate to say that what the Philippines has done is to internationalize the issue more than anyone else, and that has raised the ire of China," said Carl Baker, director of programs at the Washington, D.C.-based Pacific Forum CSIS think tank.

"I think China is pretty comfortable with its position and will continue to change 'facts on the ground' by sustaining patrols in the region to protect and police fishing," Baker said. "In the meantime, the Philippine government is clearly working to bolster relations with [other countries] to offset the Chinese influence."


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After a Chinese national was shot in the Philippines in September, China cautioned its citizens against travel to the archipelago, which is only an hour's flight from China's south coast. Earlier that month, Philippine authorities had arrested three Filipinos suspected of planning a bomb attack against Chinese interests in Manila.

In November, the Philippines fined nine Chinese fishermen $103,000 apiece for poaching and taking endangered giant sea turtles from a tract of the disputed sea, stirring new anger against China and rekindling resentment of ethnic Chinese workers in the Philippines, from smugglers of fake goods in Manila's markets to some of the country's richest business people.

Two years ago, the Philippines made what may be its boldest move against China, generating support at home and among neighbors. It filed for arbitration in a United Nations court, arguing that China's basis for claiming the disputed ocean was inconsistent with the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Beijing has declined to meet the Philippines in the U.N. Permanent Court of Arbitration, saying the body lacks authority to settle South China Sea issues. Beijing has historically preferred bilateral talks over international dispute-resolution procedures. Manila is still pushing for a solution from the U.N. court.

The dispute grew nasty in April 2012 when Manila detained eight Chinese fishing boats near a tiny South China Sea shoal 130 miles west of the Philippines' main island, Luzon. Government inspectors said they found illegally collected marine life in the Chinese boats.

China responded by reducing fruit imports from the Philippines and scaling back tourism to the archipelago.

In April 2014, Manila signed a 10-year Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the United States, allowing an unspecified number of American troops to be stationed in the Philippines. The United States had troops here for nearly a century until 1992, when they were withdrawn at the behest of officials in Manila who saw them as a throwback to colonialism.

"There's something to be said for being militarily aligned with the United States that gives the Philippines a bit more gumption," said Abigail Magalong, an analyst with U.S.-based, Southeast Asia-focused business consultancy Cascade Asia Advisors.

China was the Philippines' No. 1 source of imported goods and its No. 3 export destination in 2013. But the $294-billion Philippine economy depends more on the service industry â€" such as call centers for Western multinationals â€" as well as remittances from millions of Filipino workers based overseas, from Dubai to the United States, but not mainland China.

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A Chinese vessel works on a building project in the Spratly Islands in 2014. New satellite images show that China has rapidly expanded its artificial islands in the South China Sea. (Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs)


China's moves to explore for oil and undertake land reclamation projects on contested islets in the South China Sea have upset a number of its neighbors, including Vietnam. But none has taken a tougher stance against Beijing's moves than the Philippines.

The archipelago has shaped up as the loudest voice in Southeast Asia against China's show of strength in the Pacific. The Philippines has detained Chinese boats, arrested fishermen and lodged a formal United Nations protest against Beijing.

Manila's boldness is underpinned by two facts: Unlike many of China's neighbors, the Philippines has relatively little to lose if Beijing retaliates economically. And, unlike several South China Sea neighbors, the Philippines enjoys military support from the United States.

"If they think they can scare people here and have them change their minds about the sovereignty issue, I don't think so," said Ramon Casiple, a political commentator and executive director of the Philippine advocacy group Institute for Political and Electoral Reform. "The economic factors that are the basis for economic growth today are not based on China."

The friction between China and the Philippines stems from decades-old competing claims to parts of the 1.4-million-square-mile South China Sea. Both nations fish there and want to lay claim to some of what the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates is 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas under the ocean floor.